topic Re: Removing the default features in Alfresco Archive

Removing the default features

mialfresco — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:13:08 GMT

Hi team,We are currently implemeting an KMS using alfresco DMS features.For that we are required to configure the web client UI according to our requirement.As first phase we don't want to show all the default features in Advanced search like "look in location wizard", "Show me results in the catego

Re: Removing the default features

jayjayecl — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:01:38 GMT

1/ you have to manually edit advanced-search.jsp
2/ you have to manually edit document-details.jsp

Hop this helps

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:38:49 GMT

Thanks Jay, this helps a lot.
I have been removed the default things which i don't want.
But in "view details" page (document-details.jsp) i'm seeing some other links like "Take ownership"…etc rather than common links like delete,checkout..etc.
So if i remove the "Action" link in the above jsp i'm losting the entire "Actions" box. Instead of that i want to remove some links in that box.
But i'm little bit confused to know where to remove. because the jsf is new to me.
Can u guide me ?

Thanks for your support.

Re: Removing the default features

jayjayecl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:45:36 GMT

in document-details.jsp, just remove the whole panel :

<a:panel label="#{msg.view_links}" id="preview-panel" etc …‍

this will remove the whole block holding the links like "view in webdav", "view in CIFS" etc …

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:27:08 GMT

Hi Jay,
Thanks for your response.
Already i have done what you said to remove those links.
I removed all the links except "Actions" available in right side.
this "Actions" box contains many links like "Edit Offline","Check Out","Download","Update","Cut","Copy","Delete","TakeOwnership","Manage Content Users","Create Shortcut"…etc.

I want to remove some of these link not the entire "Actions" window.

This want i want to do now.
Can you guide me in this regard.

Re: Removing the default features

jayjayecl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:58:28 GMT

All right then :

In your web-client-config-custom.xml (in tomcaT/shared/classes/alfresco/extension), add the following :


<config>
<actions>
<action-group id="doc_details_actions">
            <action idref="edit_doc_online_http" hide="true"/>
            <action idref="edit_doc_online_webdav" hide="true"/>
            <action idref="edit_doc_online_cifs" hide="true"/>
            <action idref="edit_doc_offline" hide="true"/>
</action-group>
</actions>
</config>
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This will hide (for all users), these 4 actions.
If you want to know how I found those names ("doc-details-actions", "edit_doc_online_http" etc …), please have a look at
web-client-config-actions.xml, in webapp/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/

Does this help ?

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:23:48 GMT

Hi Jay,
Yes this is what i want.
Thanks for your support.
This disables the features to the admin also.
is there any way to disable the features except admin ?

Re: Removing the default features

jayjayecl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:44:30 GMT

yes, the other way is the following : instead of overriding the <action-group> and hiding some actions, you have to override each action definition and change the permission evaluator.

Let's see the example of action "edit_doc_offline"
(the following config sample is from web-client-config-actions.xml)


<!– Edit document offline action –>
         <action id="edit_doc_offline">
            <permissions>
               <permission allow="true">Write</permission>
            </permissions>
            <evaluator>org.alfresco.web.action.evaluator.EditDocOfflineEvaluator</evaluator>
            <label-id>edit_doc_offline</label-id>
            <image>/images/icons/edit_offline.gif</image>
            <action-listener>#{EditOfflineDialog.setupContentAction}</action-listener>
            <params>
                <param name="id">#{actionContext.id}</param>
            </params>
         </action>
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you can see that this action is visible only for users having the permission "Write", and if the evaluator EditDocOfflineEvaluator evaluates to "true".
Now you can see that you can "play" on :
- the <permission… > tag (have a look at permissionModel.xml to understand how permissions are built)
- the <evaluator… > tag to implement your own java code if you want to build a complex behaviour

Try to make the changes you want in web-client-config-custom.xml, overriding the actions you need to get changed, and tell us about the results.

hope this helps

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:03:03 GMT

Yeah, thanks Jay.
will try and let you know the results.
Thanks for ur time.

Re: Removing the default features

rama_honge — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:06:03 GMT

Hi Jay,

Is it possible to include two permissions (say Write and Execute) in the individual actions in the web-client-config-custom.xml?

below one is just an reference one:-

<!– Edit document offline action –>
         <action id="edit_doc_offline">
            <permissions>
               <permission allow="true">Write, Execute</permission>
            </permissions>
            <evaluator>org.alfresco.web.action.evaluator.EditDocOfflineEvaluator</evaluator>
            <label-id>edit_doc_offline</label-id>
            <image>/images/icons/edit_offline.gif</image>
            <action-listener>#{EditOfflineDialog.setupContentAction}</action-listener>
            <params>
                <param name="id">#{actionContext.id}</param>
            </params>
         </action>

Re: Removing the default features

jayjayecl — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:41:19 GMT

Yes, but syntax is the following :


<permissions>
               <!– each permission can be an Allow or Deny check –>
               <permission allow="true">Write</permission>
               <permission allow="true">Execute</permission>
            </permissions>
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good luck !

Re: Removing the default features

rama_honge — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:49:49 GMT

Thanks Jay

Re: Removing the default features

mahdi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:50:42 GMT

hi i need to customize the advanced search.
first i need to disable some default properties like date of modification and creation, and some menu like categories.
second, i need to personalize the search so it will be based on the type of content : when i choose a personalised doc type, only the properties associated to it will be enabled and shown.
Do you have some solutions to do it?

Regards,
Mahdi

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:50:09 GMT

Hi Mahdi,
you need to make changes in advanced-search.jsp as suggested by Jay in the beginning of this thread.

Re: Removing the default features

mahdi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:02:13 GMT

hi mialfresco, i tried to do some modification on that jsp (i deleted some component like modification date) but when i run alfresco and try to access to the advanced search i got some errors.
may i create a new dialog and new jsp to replace the default page (advanced-search.jsp)?
if it's the case it would be difficult for me as a beguiner .

Regards,

Re: Removing the default features

mialfresco — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:45:27 GMT

Hi mahdi,
There are some dependencies in this jsp. But i'm sure if you remove any component starting with the tag <aanel> to </aanel > then it should work fine. I mean you should remove the components individually. each component or window in advanced search page has its own panel tag. (appropriate code is in between <aanel> and </aanel> )

Re: Removing the default features

mahdi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:07:53 GMT

thanks mialfresco for the reply.
now i have to find a way to manipulate the personalised metadatas so that only the properties associated to the selected content type will be activated.

Re: Removing the default features

svedec — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 08:47:00 GMT

2/ you have to manually edit document-details.jsp

Is editing the JSP directly the ONLY way of achieving this ?
This has considerable drawbacks.

Edit: I just rebooted my alfresco and the sections I commented in the JSP became active again.
So please provide alternate option as this method only seems to last until you reboot ?